On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:18:43PM +0000, Heptas Torres wrote: > I am trying to generate a starting xorg.conf file by running "X > -configure" but get a segmentation fault error (output below). Any > ideas what could go wrong? Have tried this both in a VMware guest and > on real hardware but I get the same problems. dmesg is at the end. > thanks > -h
A similar problem was discussed about a month ago here[1]. The code of X -configure is not maintained. See Matthieu Herrb's suggestions in the archive or enclosed below. [1] http://mid.gmane.org/20130819055603.ga12...@nebraska.herrb.net - Martin On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:56:04 +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > I've written to a number of mailing lists of a long time that the code > behind X -configure is not maintained (and there are a number of knwon > issues) and that I strongly recommend not using it. Running X without > a config file is much more likely to produce a working result. > > And for the few cases where an xorg.conf file is needed, just read the > xorg.conf(5) man page and use a text editor to create one containing > only the needed section(s).
